Education

Interests

Damon Scott’s work focuses on the imprint of culture on urban landscapes and the ways different places can reinforce specific notions of self and community. His work is informed by current trends in cultural studies and geography that look critically at the concepts of culture, place and space in U.S. cities. His current project, The City Aroused, examines the intersections of urban redevelopment and sexual politics in San Francisco in the 1950s and 1960s.

Courses

GEO 201: Geography of Urban Diversity

GEO 455/555: Race, Urban Change, and Conflict in America

GEO 493: Urban Field Experience

AMS 205: Introduction to American Studies

AMS 301: Renewing the American City

AMS 205: Introduction to American Studies: Vanguards and Vagabonds [Study Away Winter Term course in San Francisco]

AMS399: Engaging Chicago: People on the Move in a Global City [Study Away Summer course in Chicago]

Selected Publications

“Before the Creative Class: Blight, Gay Movies, and Family Values in the Haight-Ashbury Neighborhood, 1964,” Journal of Planning History, Volume 14 No 2, May 2015:149-73.